On Friday's #dwarffortress stream, I got the first immigrants in years of game time. Join me while I try to get them organised: https://youtube.com/live/Y-RFuQ2lBh4

My #dwarffortress game seems to be settling down a bit. Not sure if it's in a good way yet. https://youtube.com/live/UxuUiFACh2A

I'm a little worried that my #dwarffortress game may be converging on some kind of steady state. But to be honest that would be a nice problem to have. Stream here: https://youtube.com/live/u-0PXaROsRM

Gratuitous Saturday repair content: this knife's handle had split from vigorous use, so I tried a whipping using wet cotton string. Now that it's dried and the cotton has shrunk, the blade seems quite firmly fixed in place.

I looked for HaSeul's most recent single on Qobuz. Wondered why the title was missing. Remembered that elsewhere I'd seen it starting with a less-that sign. They didn't, did they? Oh dear. How embarrassing.

In #dwarffortress, I'm trying to reduce the number of goblins on the map by humane (dwarvene?) means. And also improving people's bedrooms. https://youtube.com/live/h6fg-n3USkM

In #dwarffortress, it's the start of autumn, so I'm expecting a dwarven caravan and probably a goblin siege. I hope I'm properly prepared. https://youtube.com/live/3kUoB5HgOuQ

In #dwarffortress, I think it's time I rationalised my cage traps, and maybe let the goblins out. Carefully, of course. https://youtube.com/live/24TBJWAKGpU

In #dwarffortress, I'm trying to keep the gradually declining number of dwarves reasonably happy. And also stopping the giant hamsters taking over. https://youtube.com/live/yz1uD1NMnZU

In my #dwarffortress we dealt with the last goblin invasion with no loss of dwarven life. The swimming pool did kill someone though. So let's try not to let that happen again. https://youtube.com/live/L2u64F42qKw

I learned that the Korean for "grapefruit" is '자몽' (jamong), wondered a bit about etymology, and now I'm lost in a twisty maze of cirtus fruit, all different, and have 14 Wikipedia and Wiktionary tabs open.

In #dwarffortress, the goblins killed rather too many of my dwarves in the last siege. But at least my ravens are doing well. https://youtube.com/live/6-dA_jGk9Xk

My #dwarffortress is running out of dwarves, but no-one has died for months, which is probably an improvement. https://youtube.com/live/ksY3D5og-gw

As goblins continue to reduce the ranks of my dwarves in #dwarffortress I think I may need to cautiously start bringing them back to work. https://youtube.com/live/lHr2oSASyZU

I'm slowly running out of dwarves in #dwarffortress, but I'm determined to press on. https://youtube.com/live/6tQJSnuU3uc

From 2012 to 2024, the University of Cambridge Official Map was a custom PHP application built on top of #openstreetmap data. Now that it's been fully decommissioned and I don't need to worry about lurking hard-coded secrets, I've cleaned up its Git repository and made it public […]

This week I am learning Korean words from the instructions on this cup of instant tteokbokki, which makes a change from K-pop lyrics. 비다 (bida): to be empty 컵 (keop): cup 수스 (soseu): sauce 넣다 (neota): to put 밖 (bakk): outside (n.) 물 (mul): water 섞다 (seokkda) […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

In tonight's #dwarffortress stream, I hope to stop the dwarves climbing out of the swimming pool before they've learned to swim. https://youtube.com/live/qMO-2daz24A

In the last #dwarffortress stream, we managed to get some goblins to go away by giving them a copper spear. But we didn't get any more dwarves, which is what we were hoping for. Maybe we'll do better tonight... https://youtube.com/live/Bs00OQX4Ktk

In #dwarffortress, I'm trying to give the goblins what they asked for, but this is proving harder than expected. https://youtube.com/live/OW_6cvQo0Mk

Breeding is apparently working in my #dwarffortress, but not for the dwarves. Jojn me to see what happens next. https://youtube.com/live/txywbZ14ySA

Tonight's #dwarffortress stream is, if everything works, coming to you from Great Yarmouth. Probably with more heckling than usual. https://youtube.com/live/3EsRQTYpNSE

I spent most of the last session building a goblin trap in #dwarffortress, so of course the goblins have turned up from the other direction. I think I can deal with that, though. https://youtube.com/live/9_5He0lo8iQ

On Friday, I worked out why nothing much was happening in #dwarffortress (almost everyone was stuck doing military things) so now we can get back to building a swimming pool for goblins and also breeding ravens for some reason. https://youtube.com/live/YEiK2_EelPU

I've made a tiny fix to #bedstead's hint-generation so that the lower-case 'v' renders a bit better in Windows. This will appear in the next release, whenever that is.

I've made a tiny fix to #bedstead's hint-generation so that the lower-case 'v' renders a bit better in Windows. This will appear in the next release, whenever that is.

For tonight's #dwarffortress stream, I seem to be building a swimming pool for goblins. https://youtube.com/live/_PbzAolpNyQ

One problem with not having a YouTube account is that sometimes it throws away my history and forgets about something it previously knew I liked. At least, that's my excuse for how I missed Upiko's new album for eight months. It's pretty good, especially the title track […]

Tiny #peh578l progress in between making dinner: the split pin came out of the Big Nut quite easily.

Now that I've removed most of the mud from what turns out to be a concrete drive, #PEH578L's various oil leaks have become rather more obvious. There's one at the back of the front differential that should just need a new seal, so I'm working on that one. The […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

I have come back from a rather energetic holiday to discover that my #dwarffortress game is at the start of yet another goblin siege. I'm sure this will go fine. https://youtube.com/live/x1JZdh5LQfs

We half-finished the semi-automated magma transport in Friday's #dwarffortress stream. Let's see if we can (a) make it work and (b) finish damming the river with obsidian! https://youtube.com/live/_xrD-J9qSVs

I've been reading forum posts about #dwarffortress minecarts, so I might be able to fix mine. But I might also need to decide what constitutes an exploit. https://youtube.com/live/TuhoKmYkuGw

There were no dwarves on Friday because our Internet connection was made of mustelids. But we're back now and apparently I was building railways again. https://youtube.com/live/-F-1m4BqBF8

Tonight in #dwarffortress I hope to actually start moving magma by rail for real. https://youtube.com/live/kJJ9hYs8TI0

In tonight's #dwarffortress stream, I think I'm still trying to get the magma upstairs safely. https://youtube.com/live/5t4dOqBmCi0

On Friday, someone persuaded me that magma was the solution to my #dwarffortress problems. So now I need to work out how to get it to the surface. https://youtube.com/live/3yiaw1iHIvs

It's a bit warm this evening, so maybe we should go to my #dwarffortress by the sea. https://youtube.com/live/zIhO7eaeClg

As is often the case, I'm not quite sure where my #dwarffortress game is going. I think I was trying to start a leopard-breeding program. https://youtube.com/live/-BUUCNFI08k

For once my #dwarffortress screenshot looks tidier than the previous one. Also I've just upgraded to version 51.13 which should bring improved handling of ranged weapons. Join me if you like (and if I remember to post this before the end of the stream). https://youtube.com/live/IA4YpRqqV3Y

[I forgot to post this again, but if you want you can watch it a couple of hours behind] We're finally getting the dead goblins cleared up from around the fortress of Keskalokil, so maybe I can build some more railways. Join me for more #DwarfFortress if you […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

It's been quite warm today and I've cycled to Ely, so tonight's #dwarffortress stream will probably be vaguer than usual. https://youtube.com/live/_UTsCvuVm_A

As a break from CGT, let's have some #dwarffortress, which has simpler rules. https://youtube.com/live/c57UJhfakrQ

A couple of days ago I discovered that I'd accidentally become liable to Capital Gains Tax last year. This is annoying, not because I resent having to pay about £200, but because of the sheer amount of sums I have to do to work out how much I owe. Phrases like "section 104 pool" […]

Just as I was discovering what was wrong with my goblin-corpse-disposal railway, another vile force of darkness turned up. Come and see how I deal with them in tonight's #dwarffortress stream: https://youtube.com/live/nEmth939iu8

It's time for another #dwarffortress stream, and apparently I'm still alternating fighting off goblin hordes and trying to dispose of their bodies. https://youtube.com/live/oxzY5BMp6wA [ Oops; forgot to post this when I should have. Well, maybe next time. ]

The local goblin civilisation keeps sending soldiers to be killed before I've cleaned up after the last ones! So in tonight's #dwarffortress stream I'll be continuing me efforts at automating that cleanup. https://youtube.com/live/AhR5qCn1cf8

I'm back from my holidays, and apparently still trying to dispose of dead goblins in #dwarffortress https://youtube.com/live/ssbjO5al4Ao

Friday's #dwarffortress session ended with the arrival of another goblin siege before we'd finished disposing of the corpses from the last one. Well, I suppose we'd better deal with this one and then improve the automation some more. https://youtube.com/live/_QuTbkeP8LM

In tonight's #dwarffortress stream, I'm wondering if I can make cleaning up after goblin sieges more efficient. https://youtube.com/live/MqxgaHcWnK8